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Poster:	Spuzz	Date:	March 03, 2004 09:20:52am
Forum:	prelinger	Subject:	Review Bitching

Just wondering what people's thoughts on the reviews when people start jumping on people because of their reviews, politics etc. This is different then the UFOLawyer situation, but for example, the My Japan reviews / comments ( http://www.archive.org/movies/movies-details-db.php?collection=prelinger&collectionid=19296&from=mainReviews) have been strongly heated (with some racism) and on occasion, Perversion For Profit (http://www.archive.org/movies/movies-details-db.php?collection=prelinger&collectionid=00895a&from=mostViewed) gets POSITIVE feedback saying Putnam speaks the truth and so forth. I think to be quite honest, that such debate IS quite interesting, and the films invite it.. Mind you, I am not too sure if people who reply to the reviewer have seen the film (in the My Japan case). Strong language is there yes, but it's people being passionate!

What do other people think?

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Poster:	cashel	Date:	March 03, 2004 01:30:14pm
Forum:	prelinger	Subject:	Re: Review Bitching

Why not let them have a say? Perhaps, they are irritated by usa control of media. In Australia, an american citizen controls 70% of our daily newpapers (murdoch), and the majority of our news magazines are american owned(Time,readers digest etc) Then again,these poor reviewers may have eaten an american junk food burger or chicken and they are SUFFERING..

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Poster:	Marysz	Date:	March 04, 2004 06:55:25am
Forum:	prelinger	Subject:	Re: Review Bitching

It's good if people are passionate, but since this is a film site, it's more appropriate for people to talk specifically about the film they're reviewing when they express their opinions. Ideally, they should refer to a specific part of the film to make their point. The films should be the center of attention, not the reviewers.

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Poster:	Lewis Payne	Date:	March 07, 2004 08:07:04am
Forum:	prelinger	Subject:	Re: Review Bitching

I do get the nasty feeling people will write reviews without seeing the film; I mean surely that guy in My Japan doesn't think it's an actual Japanese production!!